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Chang-Yu Chang

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Chang-Yu Chang 張昌祐

My research interest lies in the intersection of systems biology, microbial evolotion and community ecology. I am interested in combining theory and experiment to study how microbial communities assemble and evolve.

Education

Ph.D. Candidate, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

Yale University

New Haven, CT

now - 2017

  • Thesis: Engineering emergent properties of microbial communities
  • Advisor: Dr. Alvaro Sanchez

M.S., Ecology and Evolutionary Biology

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

2017 - 2015

  • Thesis: Near-infrared modulates burying behavior in burying beetles
  • Advisor: Sheng-Feng Shen

B.S., Life Science

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

2015 - 2011

  • Math and computational courses oriented
  • Presidential and Dean’s Award (ranking top 5% in the class)

Publications

Generic pairwise competitive network of microbial communities

In preparation

N/A

2022

  • Chang-Yu Chang, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez

Top-down and bottom-up cohesiveness in microbial community coalescence (2022). PNAS

https://www.pnas.org/content/119/6/e2111261119

N/A

2022

  • Juan Diaz-Colunga*, Nanxi Lu*, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga*, Chang-Yu Chang, Helen Cai, Joshua Goldford, Mikhail Tikhonov, Alvaro Sanchez

Functional attractors in microbial community assembly (2021). Cell Systems.

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cels.2021.09.011

N/A

2021

  • Sylvie Estrela, Jean C C Vila, Nanxi Lu, Djordje Bajic, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Chang-Yu Chang, Joshua E. Goldford, Alicia Sanchez-Gorostiaga, Alvaro Sanchez

Engineering complex communities by directed evolution (2021). Nature Ecology & Evolution

https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-021-01457-5

N/A

2021

  • Chang-Yu Chang*, Jean C C Vila*, Madeline Bender, Richard Li, Madeleine C Mankowski, Molly Bassette, Julia Borden, Stefan Golfier, Paul Gerald L Sanchez, Rachel Waymack, Xinwen Zhu, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez, Alvaro Sanchez
  • * contributed equally.
  • Coauthors include students from courses PBoC2019 and E&EB 729

Directed Evolution of Microbial Communities (2021). Annu. Rev. Biophys.

https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-biophys-101220-072829

N/A

2021

  • Alvaro Sanchez, Jean C C Vila, Chang-Yu Chang, Juan Diaz-Colunga, Sylvie Estrela, Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

Artificially selecting bacterial communities using propagule strategies (2020). Evolution

https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14092

N/A

2020

  • Chang-Yu Chang*, Melisa L Osborne*, Djordje Bajic, Alvaro Sanchez.
  • * contributed equally.

Ecological effects of cellular computing in microbial populations (2018). Natural Computing

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11047-018-9708-8

N/A

2018

  • Maia Baskerville*, Arielle Biro*, Mike Blazanin*, Chang-Yu Chang*, Amelia Hallworth*, Nicole Sonnert*, Jean C C Vila*, Alvaro Sanchez
  • * contributed equally.

Fellowships, Grants, and Travel Funds

Government Fellowship for Oversea Study

Taiwan Ministry of Education

N/A

2020 - 2017

  • $126,000

Graduate Student Attending International Conference

Taiwan Ministry of Education

N/A

2016

  • $1,000

College Student Research Scholarship

Taiwan Ministry of Science and Technology

N/A

2015 - 2014

  • $1,200

Teaching Fellow Experience

BIOL104: Ecology & Evolutionary Biology

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2020

  • Lecture TF

E&EB729: Microbial Ecology and Evolution

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • Course facilitator

PBoC2019: Physical Biology of the Cell course

Marine Biological Laboratory

Woods Hole, MA

2019

  • Course facilitator

EEB250/550: Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • Lecture TF

EEB251L/551L: Laboratory for Biology Of Terrestrial Arthropods

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • TF, organized field trips, and conducted demo experiments

EEB223L/523L: Laboratory for Evolution & Functional Traits

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • TF, organized field trips, and conducted demo experiments

LS3022: Biostatistics

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

2016

  • TF and lectured basic R

LS1019: General Botany Lab

National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

2015

  • TF and lectured lab experiments

Talks and Posters

Lab seminar

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

2021

  • Invited talk

Lab seminar

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia PA

2021

  • Invited talk

Workshop on Limits to Diversity Assembly, ICTP

Trieste, Italy

Virtual

2021

  • Invited talk

Microbial Sciences Institute SMAL talks

Yale University

Virtual

2020

  • Invited talk

The Graduate Research in Ecology, Behavior, and Evolution Annual Symposium (GREBE)

Princeton University

Princeton, NJ

2019

  • Contributed talk

Microbial Sciences Institute Retreat

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • Poster presentation

Yale EEB graduate student symposium

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • Best poster award

17th International Symposium on Microbial Ecology (ISME)

N/A

Leipzig, Germany

2018

  • Poster presentation

18th Congress of Animal Behavior and Ecology

National Sun Yat-sen University

Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2017

  • Winner Prize for research and oral presentation

15th Congress of the International Society for Behavioral Ecology

Unversity of Exeter

Exeter, UK

2016

  • Oral Presentation (abstract reviewed)

Graduate student symposium

College of Life Science, National Taiwan University

Taipei, Taiwan

2016

  • Best poster award

Services

President, Yale Taiwansese Student Association

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2020 - 2018

  • Organized recreational and holiday events for Taiwanese students
  • Facilitated connections among Taiwanese students across universities

Organizer, Yale EEB Hutchinson speaker

Yale University

New Haven, CT

2019

  • Dr. Dolph Schluter (UBC) invited as the 2019 Hutchinson Speaker
  • Organized and modulated invited speaker talks, sessions, and meetings

References

Dr. Alvaro Sanchez

Ph.D. advisor

N/A

  • Assoiciate Professor, Yale University

Dr. Maria Rebolleda-Gomez

Ph.D. lab colleague

N/A

  • Assistant Professor, University of California, Irvine

Dr. David Vasseur

Dissertation committee

N/A

  • Professor, Yale University

Dr. Sheng-Feng Shen

M.S. advisor

N/A

  • Research Fellow (Professor), Academia Sinica in Taiwan